flask
- Museum number
- 1897,0401.925
- Description
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Glass flask in the form of a pomegranate.
Body cream-coloured, original colour indecipherable; opaque white and opaque orange trails. Splayed rim formed by six triangular, pointed calyx-tips, bent outwards; cylindrical neck joining shoulder in curve; almost spherical body with rounded bottom.
On body two groups of opaque combed trails: (a) on upper half, three trails, white, orange, and white, combed into upright festoons; (b) on lower half, two trails, white and orange, combed into inverted festoons.
Core-formed and tooled, trails marvered and combed.
- Production date
- 1340BC-1050BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 6.30 centimetres
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Height: 5.70 centimetres (max)
- Curator's comments
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Register notes that .920-26 marked Tomb 44 in error and .921 has '48' on it in pencil. A glass pomegranate is noted from the register and the contents are consistent with tomb 48 so all objects have been assigned 'tomb 48?'
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BM Glass
Fossing 1940, 28 (mention only). Astrom 1967, 58, 125 (=id. 1972, 530, 597). Barag 1970, 185.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Rim and neck missing, body repaired over a solid core of clay or lime. Completely devitrified; no remaining trace of glassy structure.
- Acquisition date
- 1897
- Department
- Greek and Roman
- Registration number
- 1897,0401.925